Mummy Teganaria with sac

[Sonny]

My mum went to clean our new house today and she browt me this back. It is a teganaria gigantica and she has a sac full of babys.
isnt she cute?
i am going to look after her and help her look after her babys.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q255/RioRocks/DSCN1818.jpg

[Tegenaria]

thats a cool looking spider sonny but i dont think its a tegenaria

[Sonny]

what is it please, i would like to know if i got it wrong. thankyou.

[Theraphosidae]

Do you have any Photographs of this spider from a different angle, Sonny?

[Theraphosidae]

what is it please, i would like to know if i got it wrong. thankyou.

Looks suspiciously like Pholcus phalangioides to me

[Tegenaria]

its a cool bugger, Id love to find one!
Poor sonny's worried now and he neednt be cos all spiders are venomous and to me thats another way of saying poisonous

[Tegenaria]

Jay et al have a look here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Pholcidae/Pholcidae.htm

[Mary]

Our house is full of the blessed things, they eat all the tegenaria in the garage, I hate them, if it were me it would be squashed, no reprieve.

[Gigas]

Looks suspiciously like Pholcus phalangioides to me

My thoughts exactly John, Sonny the best way to look after this species is to let them loose in the house as the like being in dark areas like behind bookshelves.

[Tarantula]

This species is one of the ones that dont have venom. Pretty cool! :D (If it is P. phalangioides)

[Jay]

I've looked it up on the internet and it says its a cellar spider, dont know if this is true but I will not squish it, I promised Sonny I wouldn't.
He has put it in a dark place behind his stereo in his bedroom.
Many thanks for helping him. J x

[Gigas]

You may want to put a sheet of slanted carboard in there for her to hang on.

And I've just had a good look at the picture, its a very good shot!

[Tegenaria]

Jay Im afriad I got Sonny a bit worried over this, but it is a venomous species, as most spiders are, so was just being cautious. Ya never know with spiders.

[Gigas]

Err all the venom stories about pholcus are massively over exaggerated to say the least :rolleyes:

[Tegenaria]

I just took the info from an official site Gigus. I wasa just trying to explain to sonny that jusrt cos a spider is venomous doesnt mean its nasty, and the venom=poison.But poison is a bad word and venom les so.

[Jay]

Piece of card now in its tank, thankyou Chris and thankyou for your concerne Larry, its much appreciated.
But please guys, lets not have a squabble eh? We are all pals here remember.
Hugs to you all, Jay xxx

[Jay]

You may want to put a sheet of slanted carboard in there for her to hang on.

And I've just had a good look at the picture, its a very good shot!

Thanks Chris, that means a lot. I took the picture really quickly thru the glass of the jar, I didnt even try this time, maybe I try a bit to hard sometimes. I am really chuffed now, thankyou. xxx

[Tegenaria]

It is a good shot, me and John(Theraphosidae) were discussing it on msn. I thought, that doe look like no tegenaria, and he said the same as me,daddy long legs spider, and i thought it was only found in america but nope, europe too!
I think marys lucky to have loads of these cool beasties!

[Mary]

Larry, they are eating all the tegenaria in the garage, they are awful spiders, sqish fodder. I must admit we had never seen any till we came down here to live, we took a pair to natural history museum and were told they are a mediteranian sp that is slowly moving north, so it has got to yorkshire already.

[Jay]

Larry, they are eating all the tegenaria in the garage, they are awful spiders, sqish fodder. I must admit we had never seen any till we came down here to live, we took a pair to natural history museum and were told they are a mediteranian sp that is slowly moving north, so it has got to yorkshire already.

There are lots of these in the new house Mary, I went to the new place lastnight and there was about 3 on the top of the stairs, they are all over!!!!
I will collect em all and send em to you lot lol

[Tegenaria]

I think they're well cool! But then i like all spiders. I find it weird how someone can like Ts but hate spiders

[Gigas]

Larry i once asked a girl this, she said it was because T's were fluffy!

[Jay]

Larry i once asked a girl this, she said it was because T's were fluffy!

Someone on here once asked me that question and I gave the same answer LMAO, Must be a woman thing Chris. :hmm:

[Jay]

Someone on here once asked me that question and I gave the same answer LMAO, Must be a woman thing Chris. :hmm:

Can I just add a bit more to this?
I personally dont know what it is about them, I love T's as they ARE fluffy and really cute but I just cant get my head around those short legged fat bulbous abdoman spids with shiney legs, but saying that I find scorps and pede's really interesting. I love all bugs ants are fabulas, I just adore ants and as for standard bugs like beetles I think they are fabulas and I would have loads of them, but spiders, well, I just cant get my head around them, true spiders are foul.:unhappy: :O_o: :no:

[Mary]

Have to agree with Jay on the trues I'm afraid, they are awful, Trev has left one here in a jug and gone out *shudders*.

I don't want any of your foul spiders Jay, send them to Glen :biggrin_hat:

[Tegenaria]

Have to agree with Jay on the trues I'm afraid, they are awful, Trev has left one here in a jug and gone out *shudders*.

I don't want any of your foul spiders Jay, send them to Glen :biggrin_hat:
You know theres a T that lives in a cave, is small blind and looks like a true! Saw it on a documentary somewhere!

I dont think Ts are fluffy or cute, just interesting. To me a T is just a big spider!(with somehwhat different anatomy)

Its funny how we have different views on things,makes things interesting.

[Jay]

Will these still eat while they are carrying a sac then?

[Jay]

You know theres a T that lives in a cave, is small blind and looks like a true! Saw it on a documentary somewhere!

I dont think Ts are fluffy or cute, just interesting. To me a T is just a big spider!(with somehwhat different anatomy)

Its funny how we have different views on things,makes things interesting.

LARRY........................SHURRUP!;)

[Mary]

LARRY........................SHURRUP!;)

Ditto.....................................

[Gigas]

Will these still eat while they are carrying a sac then?

Nope

[Dan]

i have 2 Pholcidae sp which i keep in containers coz there funny to watch walk. they look drunk. i dont like them tho when there in the wild there all over. there from america and they kill the native british spider.

also i do like trues i think they are quite interestin to watch.

[Mary]

My tegenaria now has it's 4th sac and the spiderlings are all over the place, now the lil things don't bother me, it's the big ones *shudders*, but I am getting better I think.

[Tegenaria]

i have 2 Pholcidae sp which i keep in containers coz there funny to watch walk. they look drunk. i dont like them tho when there in the wild there all over. there from america and they kill the native british spider.

also i do like trues i think they are quite interestin to watch.

actually Pholcus phalangoides is a british spider, which one do you have?

"
There are three genera of this family found in NW-Europe: Pholcus phalangioides (common), Holocnemus pluchei and Psilochorus simoni (rare)."

[Dan]

i think they are Pholcus phalangoides. my mistake i thought they were american, anyway they still kill Teganaria and other spiders and considering they dont have a great appearence i dont like them

[Mary]

I can't stand them either they are squish fodder in our house because they eat our native spids.

[Tegenaria]

i think they are Pholcus phalangoides. my mistake i thought they were american, anyway they still kill Teganaria and other spiders and considering they dont have a great appearence i dont like them

i think theyre cool, wish we had them here!

[benm2000]

It is a good shot, me and John(Theraphosidae) were discussing it on msn. I thought, that doe look like no tegenaria, and he said the same as me,daddy long legs spider, and i thought it was only found in america but nope, europe too!
I think marys lucky to have loads of these cool beasties!

Theres lots of them in the barn where i work! theyre horrible, they ate all the Tegenaria i was feeding :angry:

[Tegenaria]

oh there are birds out there,cute fluffy ones that also eat spiders,Tegenaria included. and ugliness is in the foot of the squisher. i would never kill something because it kills other animals or is ugly.

[Mary]

I use a fly swat Larry:biggrin:

When we moved to MK we took a pair of the daddylonglegs to The Natural History Museum on London, they are a Meditaranian sp that is colonising the UK.